Category: St. Petersburg Philharmonic

  • * Notes * The Sunday performance of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, conducted by Maestro Yuri Temirkanov in San Francisco, was sold out. The program of Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich, and Brahms held together well. The orchestra played with dark warmth, perhaps a bit sloppily, but with confidence. Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Overture No. 3 with dignity and cheerful bluster,…